Mechagon is currently available for testing on the Rise of Azshara PTR, and one of its main features is that every day, new friendly NPCs arrive to Rustbolt to offer you daily quests. One of the visitors with one of the most interesting quests is Chromie!

Story Spoilers for Rise of Azshara in this post!

In the quest L'altro posto, Chromie asks us to go on an alternate timeline - One where King Mechagon managed to fulfill his plan of mechanizing every being in Mechagon. Well... sorta. We are there to scan the memories of Clockwork Giants to learn more about them and ensure our timeline's Mechagon Island never turns into this dystopic future. The once peaceful Rustbolt is covered in flames and ashes, with many gigantic Arachnoid Destroyers encroaching the area. Prince Erazmin, leader of the Rustbolt Resistance, is nowhere to be seen.

In my travels of the many possible futures, I discovered another place much like Rustbolt, but different. In this other time and place, very little is alive, everything is machines. You must travel to this other place. You will scan the memory banks Clockwork Giants you find there. Then we will use that data to insure that our Rustbolt never becomes, the other place.

Some of the mechagnomes from Rustbolt are still alive in this timeline, like Christy Pestaviti, the Upgrade Specialist, and Izira Giurabulloni, the captain of the Rustbolt Guard. Izira gives us more insight into the grisly situation.

They are all gone. King Mechagon won, he activated the Mechoriginator.Everyone is gone.

> What happened here?

A hologram of King Mechagon appeared in the middle of Rustbolt declaring victory. Then he activated the Mechoriginator. There was a large blast... fire and panic everywhere!Most of us were O.K, but those without mechanization were not so lucky.

> Did it reverse the Curse of Flesh?

I believe his research was corrupted, his device flawed. It didn't reverse the curse of flesh as Mechagon planned.It ignited the skies and burn the flesh of most every living thing. Those of us mechanized enough survived.

> Where is Prince Erazmin?

Clockwork Giants and spiders began attacking Rustbolt soon after the attack. We all fought the bots till our gears gave out. My legs broke and I was unable to protect Prince Erazmin. He was taken prisoner.I think King Mechagon wanted him alive.

The surviving residents of Rustbolt put their final hopes into repairing Izira Gearsworn, their strongest fighter. While in the alternate timeline, we help repair Izira by collecting scrap parts in Adattamento. Miglioramento. Sopraffazione.. Once Izira is repaired, we help start the Rustbolt Resistance anew in Atto finale, where we kill the leader of Bondo's Yard, Bondo Granblocco. In this timeline, Bondo sold out the Rustbolt Rebellion in exchange for complete mechanization.

Interestingly enough, on the Mechagon Introduction Questline, Prince Erazmin warns us that one of the dangers of completing mechanization is the gnome losing their emotions and their sense of being, turning into mere machines in service of King Mechagon, but this is not the case with Bondo - He recognizes us, which implies that this timeline is one where we managed to reach Mechagon, but failed to complete the Rustbolt Resistance.

Bondo Bigblock: <player!> I expected you to be dead.Bondo Bigblock: Check out Bondo Bigblock version 2.0.

The Fate of Prince Erazmin

In Chromie's timeline, you're able to dodge the gigantic Mechaspider bots and explore the devastated Mechagon, which is filled with Clockwork Giants and other hostile robots. What is likely the most insidious part of this timeline is that we do lose Prince Erazmin to King Mechagon - The rare Il Principe Arrugginito, available only during the alternate timeline, shares a model with Principe Erazmin. Like Bondo, the Rusty Prince also talks like he recognizes us.

Thanks to ChroniC for helping with the discovery of this rare!

The Rusty Prince: I am so glad you survived <player>, so I can kill you.

The Fate of the Gnomish and Goblin Expeditions

Another curious fact of this timeline is that you can see reanimated Cadavere Senzacarne around the Goblin and Gnomish landing areas, skeletons completely devoid of their flesh. We know at least Mechagon Island got hit by King Mechagon's Mechoriginator device, but just how far did the damage go?

Commenti

Commento di Nulgar

Commento di ljgard

this expansion is leaving me with a lot more questions than answers. Even the obvious Old God stuff could all well be a misdirect at this point.

Commento di Willowwhisp

on 2019-04-22T08:56:48-05:00

This is a cool questline. Mechagon is very cool in general. I don't want to spoil it by doing it all on the PTR but it's extremely addictive and hard to stay away.

Commento di cloudotq

on 2019-04-22T09:11:07-05:00

we're getting Mechagnomes next expac friends. No way they create this many models for nothing.

Commento di Nulgar

on 2019-04-22T09:50:35-05:00

we're getting Mechagnomes next expac friends. No way they create this many models for nothing.

Horde gets Gnome Skeletons :)

Commento di Berronaxwins

on 2019-04-22T09:58:02-05:00

Oh no.. not an alternate universe thing on azeroth.

Please no.

This is a can of worms that really shouldn't be opened.

Commento di Korr

on 2019-04-22T10:08:39-05:00

we're getting Mechagnomes next expac friends. No way they create this many models for nothing.

Maybe this expansion while Horde gets Vulpera.

Commento di vindurza

on 2019-04-22T10:13:51-05:00

this is very unnerving

Commento di KageJason

on 2019-04-22T10:20:42-05:00

Oh no.. not an alternate universe thing on azeroth.

Please no.

This is a can of worms that really shouldn't be opened.

*Blizzard ends up opening the can even wider as it reveals that's CoD's black ops story team is behind BFA's latest stories*

Commento di kutku

on 2019-04-22T10:52:29-05:00

Oh no.. not an alternate universe thing on azeroth.

Please no.

This is a can of worms that really shouldn't be opened.

*Blizzard ends up opening the can even wider as it reveals that's CoD's black ops story team is behind BFA's latest stories*

New Blackout Map: Mechagon*requires Black Ops 4 and World of Warcraft purchase*only available in a loot box

Commento di Dknight85

on 2019-04-22T11:05:43-05:00

they would do so do this

Commento di tupolew519

on 2019-04-22T11:34:34-05:00

Yay! I knew she also comes back on the future

Commento di Cyberium

on 2019-04-22T12:46:07-05:00

So the mechagnomes became... Cybermen?

They are now better at dying.

Commento di Calphricham

on 2019-04-22T12:49:07-05:00

I hope this one's not timed.

Commento di Yrayl

on 2019-04-22T14:03:39-05:00

So the mechagnomes became... Cybermen?

They are now better at dying.

Only if we have some Dalek's handy, otherwise their going to harvest everyone's brains and you know that's not any fun for anyone...

Commento di Deldramar

on 2019-04-22T14:23:07-05:00

This is closer to the Endtime dungeon (alternate future we're trying to prevent) than WoD (entirely parallel universe following its own timeline).

Commento di kezriel

on 2019-04-22T15:14:03-05:00

Pretty neat

Commento di hotaru251

on 2019-04-22T17:40:35-05:00

the msot gnome content the game has ever had.

Commento di Soeroah

on 2019-04-22T20:17:16-05:00

Oh sweet! I love stuff like this. I hope they do more alt timeline forays as world quests/assaults in the future.

They don't have to make a whole expansion about it, just scenarios similar to the caverns of time. That's the best if both worlds. Won't cause major problems in the lore but lets us explore the consequences of failure.

Commento di manna222

on 2019-07-05T13:42:36-05:00

The blueprint may have a chance to drop off Bondo, but it usually drops off the Clockwork Giants.